It's not about "generating" money, it's about "justifying" money. If a municipality spends 75%+ of their time enforcing speed regulations and take heat for it, the propaganda project provides a means to deflect the scrutiny and even head it off at the pass via indoctrination. If you can convince enough people it's…

The problem is that those make sense beyond the marketing. Using restraint systems greatly improves survival rates on average. Drunk driving accounts for a huge percentage of collisions yearly. Speed on the other hand is not so clear, nor does the "speed kills" campaign have a logical message. What is the message to…

Exactly, and current speed limits do neither. They are arbitrary. This is why the average speeds on most freeways are 10 to 15 miles per hour greater than the limits when police are not present, but accident rates are LOWER than when police are present.

The speed even on side roads proves it's not the speed that is the issue.

Now we are moving into the realm of real science and logic. This is why people, especially engineers, hate the "speed kills" foolishness. The foundation for all determination of speeds should be the maximum speed achievable compared to the optimum negative rates such as fatalities.

That is the point. The argument is that speed is the core value in determining fatality statistics. That is not correct. In fact, speed is a minor factor in a long list of factors in determining probability of both the occurrence of collisions as well as the severity of collisions.

That's the problem. The answer is no... the average injuries and fatalities resulting from wrecks do not increase in severity with speed proportionally. Speed is not as important to the equation as other components. This is why statistically you are more likely to suffer serious injury in a lower speed rural highway…

This is extremely situational. Hence the reason high speed freeways have fewer fatalities than lower speed rural highways.

How are you calculating the "higher chance of death"? This is the issue, "excessive speeds" are subjective and evidence shows increases in speed do not equate to increased fatality statistics directly proportional to energy increases. Further, the speed limit is not a reference to a safe speed, thus, traveling faster…

I don't like traction control for the following reasons:

Vomiting blood is a bad thing... I ignore a lot of problems so that I don't have to go to the doctor (you know, because I'm a man) but when blood starts coming up instead of food, I'm getting a second opinion. Just sayin.

All these people are cheering that he got arrested... but my first reaction was wanting to what EXACTLY they had to arrest him for. Speeding? Reckless driving? All of these are traffic related offenses and actually very minor in the eyes of the justice system. If they are planning to hold him, I am really curious what…

Yeah, that's why I'm paranoid crossing intersections. Around here if one of these fully loaded trucks lost it's brakes or the driver passed out it would completely erase my little car even more than these poor people in the vans.

I would autocross it... I wouldn't win, but at least you wouldn't have to hold my beer because there must be 40 cup holders in something like that.

I wounder where along the way people forgot that shotguns use to be loaded with pretty much whatever was laying around. Nails, broken glass, rocks, it all works. People even use to use pocket change. Once cartridges started to standardize things got less crazy, but you can theoretically still use almost anything.

I must have gotten something in my eye...

Exactly, that's where control tolerances come into play. If you never drive above 70-75% total capability, you will always have plenty of additional in reserve for the unexpected. A person should not be able to walk out in front of you and "surprise" you because you should have bad plenty of visual scanning distance…

I think you are confused. I'm not disagreeing that there is an unsafe speed. I am disagreeing that "fast" is adequate to describe what is unsafe. I also disagree that speed limits are safe speeds (which they aren't and I work with the engineers that determine them).

The discussion is about speed limits and safe speeds. Since safety and speed limits do not directly overlap, they can never be extrapolated. There are safe speeds, these can be found on a vehicle by vehicle basis, but there is no such thing as a blanket safe speed.